Mississippi Business Journal » The Associated Press http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Southern senators: Farm Bill boosts Midwest, leaves Dixie with peanuts http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/06/17/southern-senators-farm-bill-boosts-midwest-leaves-dixie-with-peanuts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=southern-senators-farm-bill-boosts-midwest-leaves-dixie-with-peanuts http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/06/17/southern-senators-farm-bill-boosts-midwest-leaves-dixie-with-peanuts/#comments Sun, 17 Jun 2012 06:01:31 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=58593 Southern farmers say they expect to be on the short end of a new five-year farm bill unless Congress can accommodate the special circumstances of the nation’s farming regions. Growers in Mississippi and elsewhere in the South are holding out hope that the House prevails with a yet-to-be-written bill its Agriculture Committee chairman promises will [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/06/17/southern-senators-farm-bill-boosts-midwest-leaves-dixie-with-peanuts/feed/ 1 1 in 2 new graduates are jobless or underemployed http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/23/1-in-2-new-graduates-are-jobless-or-underemployed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=1-in-2-new-graduates-are-jobless-or-underemployed http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/23/1-in-2-new-graduates-are-jobless-or-underemployed/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:59:38 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=56084 WASHINGTON — The college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work. A weak labor market already has left half of young college graduates either jobless or underemployed in positions that don’t fully use their skills and knowledge. Young adults with bachelor’s degrees are increasingly scraping by in lower-wage [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/23/1-in-2-new-graduates-are-jobless-or-underemployed/feed/ 2 State set to meet about Aberdeen school system http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/18/state-set-to-meet-about-aberdeen-school-system/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=state-set-to-meet-about-aberdeen-school-system http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/18/state-set-to-meet-about-aberdeen-school-system/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:19:05 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=55841 JACKSON — State officials have signaled they could be seeking to take over an eighth school district even as they consider fundamental changes to the process of state control, called conservatorship. Mississippi’s Commission on School Accreditation is scheduled to meet Wednesday in Jackson and appears poised to declare a state of emergency in the 1,400-student [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/18/state-set-to-meet-about-aberdeen-school-system/feed/ 0 Bryant criminalizes Jackson Women’s Health Organization http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/17/bryant-criminalizes-jackson-womens-health-organization/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bryant-criminalizes-jackson-womens-health-organization http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/17/bryant-criminalizes-jackson-womens-health-organization/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:53:50 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=55827 JACKSON — Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant on Monday signed a law that will put new regulations on the state’s only abortion clinic, starting July 1. The Republican said he’s not bothered by the possibility that the clinic’s owner will sue to try to block the new mandates. “If it closes that clinic, then so be [...]

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